Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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COVID outcomes predictor suffers only slight sophomore slump

The model’s consistent overall accuracy demonstrates the reusability of existing COVID algorithms with recalibrations rather than fallbacks to square one, AI developers suggest.

July 30, 2021

Medicare improves racial healthcare inequities

Medicare is associated with reductions in racial and ethnic disparities in insurance coverage, access to care and self-reported health across the U.S., according to a new study published in JAMA.

 

July 28, 2021
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Bias-resistant AI advances personalized medicine in surgery

Researchers in Denmark and the U.S. have used deep neural networks to develop complementing models for predicting complications likely to arise in patients who’ve had surgeries of all kinds. 

July 28, 2021
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AI separates EHR wheat from weeds so clinicians can get on with patient care

When assisted by an AI tool designed to organize and display digitized patient referral records, gastroenterologists cut their time to answer relevant clinical questions by 2.3 minutes.

July 28, 2021
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Lonely older adults take more high-risk medications

Being lonely has some correlation to higher use in riskier medications among older adults, according to a new study.

 

July 26, 2021
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Scholarly futurists project healthcare AI’s trajectory across 3 time windows

Beginning around 2031, autonomous virtual assistants will deliver precision preventive medicine while networked provider orgs offer closely connected care via single, shared digital infrastructures.

July 26, 2021
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AI biopsy dilemma: Wolf or husky, equity or bias?

Early on in the development of digital image recognition, the technology showed a penchant for taking logical but potentially problematic shortcuts: It would look to image artifacts and incidental “asides” such as background features to distinguish between two visually similar subjects.

July 22, 2021
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AI casts wide net to predict functional decline in the elderly

Psychology researchers have used machine learning to wring useful two-year dementia trajectory predictions from more than 500 potentially contributing risk factors.

July 21, 2021

Around the web

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

U.S. physicians often receive payments from medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. New research in JAMA found a connection between receiving such payments and using specific devices—should the industry be concerned? 

Five of the largest U.S. medical societies focused on cardiovascular health are one step closer to seeing their paradigm-shifting proposal become a reality.

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